Re: FVWM: FVWM configuration

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 01:27:58 +0100

On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:27:14PM +0200, Sampo Niskanen wrote:
>
> I have been using fvwm for a long time now and am quite impressed in the
> number of options in the newer versions, but there still seems to be a few
> things missing. If somebody can tell me how to configure any of the
> following, I'd be very grateful. Otherwise, they might possibly be added
> to some wish-list...?
>
> - Can key binding be program-specific? My brother has configured his fvwm
> so that alt-click anywhere on a window does the same as a click on the
> top bar (raise, move, etc) and that would be very useful. But the problem
> is that GIMP uses alt-click for it's own purposes and capturing them from
> GIMP would limit it's functionality. Is it possible to set alt-clicks to
> work in such a way for all except GIMP-windows?

No, not yet.

> - An old version (1.x I believe) with smartplacement set the first window
> on a screen at position 0x0, the newer versions set it at 1x1. This I find
> very irritating, as I can't just "throw" my cursor to the upper left and
> get focus into the xterm there (my focus follows the mouse. I don't want
> to use SloppyFocus). Is it possible to get fvwm not to leave these
> empty-spaces?

Which version are you using? There was a similar bug in the code for a few
days recently, but you had had to access CVS to get this.

> - In an older version there was a "bug" that when sliding the mouse cursor
> on the top of a window left or right (over the border) fvwm didn't scroll
> to the next page (You had to move it at least one pixel down so that it
> scrolled. The same was with the bottom edge. This, of course, only worked
> on the upper page). It has, evidently, been fixed in a newer release, but
> I find myself missing it. This would be nice so you could "throw" your
> mouse northwest as I described previously on other pages than the leftmost
> too.

Duh. How did you move back into the page if you didn't want to
flip pages?

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Received on Wed Nov 17 1999 - 18:06:03 GMT

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